Ian Bostridge has been singing Schubert’s Winterreise for three decades. He explains why he agreed to approach a work he knows so intimately through the dark mirror of Hans Zender’s ‘composed ...

Like Frederick Douglass, Franz Schubert is an example of somebody who is getting recognized more and more these days, so much so that I was compelled to write about him recently in the magazine—a ...

Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, completed in 1827, is a set of 24 songs for voice and piano composed almost entirely using minor keys, which unlike the warm sounds of major keys often sound sad to our ...

The baritone has refined his playlist to include Vaughan Williams, Ina Boyle and Gerald Finzi, lending this enthralling cycle deeper melancholy than the original Roderick Williams hit on the idea of ...

These musicians have been working together on and off for a long time, and perhaps the only thing they have in common with the "classic" lineup of the John Coltrane quartet is the fact that they work ...

Ian Bostridge is not a classical singer. Yes, he's a tenor, and what he does is vocal performance, and it's strikingly compelling. But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain ...

A work ahead of its time, the composer’s great song cycle meditates on all our disappointments. By Phil Hebblethwaite “Come over to Schober’s today, and I will sing you a cycle of terrifying songs,” ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Schubert's 'Der Leiermann,' rec. in 1962 with pianist Gerald Moore. As snowstorms hit the country today, All Things Considered revisits a vivid story that choreographer ...

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Winterreise was dubbed by Schubert ‘a cycle of spine-chilling [schauerliche] Lieder’. What so shocked the composer’s friends when he sang through the first 12 songs, and still shocks today, is the ...